Archive for the ‘competition’ tag
KUNSTFONDS 2008
Good news! Just go a letter from Stiftung Kunstfonds
(german state art funding institute) with a confirmation for a working grant for 2008! Congratulations to all other46 artist who will receive the same grant.
Video Art Award – Bremen
I am pleased to anounce that I won a first price for a concept I proposed to the 17th video art award Bremen. Planned by Filmbuero Bremen e.V and curated by Marikke Heinz-Hoek. The opening of the exhibition of last year winners took place on 9.12.07.
More details comming soon.
Pic by Marius Watz
Udate:
#17 video award Bremen
Jury:
Astrid Nippoldt
Christian Katti
Sönke Magnus Müller
Awarded concepts:
– Aram Bartholl “Sociial”
– Maximilaian Moll “Keep the fire burning”
– Stephane Leonard “New York Street Ensemble”
"Reinventing the Virtual City"
The very successful Shrinking Cities exhibition is still touring worldwide (where are they right now?). Recently they had a call for Second Life. Since the press anounced that Second Life shrinks Shrinking Cities took the opportunity to set up a competition on shrinking Second Life, sure they just had to :-). Florian Schmidt, a good friend won the first price with his proposal “SEMANTIC TECTONIC”. I am curious for his ideas on how to safe the virtual world ;-)
Btw, yesterday Christian Scholz aka Mr.Topf aka Tao Takashi held a very interesting talk on the new Second Life grid architecture development at ComMeta convention center. Everybody will be able to set up a grid when the time has come…
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